SERVICE AT THE NEW HAMPSHIRE VETERANS CEMETERY IN BOSCAWEN. A REUNION MORE THAN FOUR DECADE IN THE MAKING TONIGHT. TWO VIETNAM VETERANS BACK TOGETHER AGAIN, RELIVING THE DAY THAT THEY ALMOST DID NOT SURVIVE. JEAN MACKIN TAKES US TO A VERY EMOTIONAL REUNION. IT IS A LIFE LONG BOND FORMED 44 YEARS AGO WHEN THESE TWO VIETNAM VETERANS NEARLY DIED TOGETHER. I THOUGHT FOR SURE WE WERE DEAD. NONE OF US SHOULD HAVE LIVED THROUGH THAT DAY, AND WE ALL DID. RETIRED CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER GEORGE SCOTT MADE THE TRIP FROM FLORIDA TO THE NEWPORT VETERANS CLUB TO SEE RETIRED SERGEANT MARK ABEL FACE TO FACE, AND TO THANK HIM ONCE AGAIN. I FEEL THAT I OWE HIM MY LIFE. AND HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IT. IN MARCH OF 1970, THEIR CHOPPER WAS SHOT DOWN IN VIETNAM. ALL THREE MEN ON BOARD WERE WOUNDED. GEORGE WAS THE PILOT THAT DAY AND DOESN'T REMEMBER BEING SHOT. MARK REMEMBERS DEFENDING THE POSITION UNTIL THEY WERE ALL RESCUED. GEORGE'S CHEST WAS LAID WIDE OPEN. SO I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD SHOOT. SO I GATHERED, I HAD MY M60 STILL IN MY ARMS EVEN AFTER BEING THROWN FROM THE HELICOPTER. SERGEANT ABEL EARNED THE SILVER STAR AND ALL THESE YEARS LATER HIS PILOT HAS RETURNED TO THANK HIM. IT'S SORT OF A HEALING PROCESS, YOU KNOW, FIRST WE'RE GRATEFUL TO HIM FOR OUR LIVES. HOW DID THESE TWO SOLDIERS FIND EACH OTHER? THROUGH SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T EVEN EXIST YEARS AGO, FACEBOOK. WE DID, I SAW HIS WIFE, AND HIS GRANDSON, IT WAS REALLY SOMETHING. A CEREMONY WAS HELD AT THE VETERANS CLUB. HUGS AND SALUTES ALL AROUND FOR TWO VETERANS. SIDE BY SIDE AGAIN. GOD BLESS YOU.

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